Tuca & Bertie

Name: Tuca & Bertie
Genre: 35, 16
Released: 2019

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Free-spirited toucan Tuca and self-doubting song thrush Bertie are best friends – and birds – who guide each other through life's ups and downs.

Who would love this

♥Viewers who appreciate unique and surreal animation styles.
♥Fans of shows that blend humor with deep emotional and psychological themes.
♥Those interested in narratives that explore female friendships, mental health, and personal growth.
♥Audiences looking for a show that tackles societal issues like sexism and gentrification with a fresh perspective.

Who might not

✗Viewers who prefer straightforward, linear comedic narratives.
✗Those who are uncomfortable with surrealism or abstract visual metaphors.
✗Audiences looking for purely lighthearted or escapist entertainment without deeper thematic exploration.
✗Individuals who may find the show's handling of sensitive topics like trauma too intense.

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What critics are saying about Tuca & Bertie

“Tuca & Bertie” pushes toward a messy answer, using the setting of a bakery where Bertie works not to teach an empowering lesson, or to offer a message of hope, but to point out the darker, complicated and more disappointing reality of the moment: So much remains unchanged.It’s a ruthless combination of humor and devastating emotional nuance, and it guts. The best animated shows for adults have always used the surrealism of illustration to blow up some emotional truth. But their writers rooms have rarely been headed up by women.

‘Tuca & Bertie’ Explores Dark Truths in the Kitchen (Published 2019)

It still qualifies as a comedy and certainly contains plenty of scenes and storylines that lean fully into the genre. (Example: Tuca’s decision to launch a “non-televised, non-filmed” reality show called Sex Bus , in which she commandeers a bus filled with potential sexual partners and eliminates them until she finds a winner.) But it also seems to be embracing its introspective side more openly, the way it did in “The Jelly Lakes,” the first season’s penultimate episode, which addressed a long-buried, traumatic incident in Bertie’s childhood.

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